Swimming at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	12 August (heats and semifinals) 13 August (final)
Competitors	30 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:55.62
Medalists
Yohann Ndoye-Brouard   France   Benedek Kovács   Hungary   Luke Greenbank   Great Britain

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 August 2022.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:51.92	Rome	31 July 2009
European record	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.23	Kazan	8 April 2021
Championship record			1:53.36	Glasgow	8 August 2018

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 12 August at 09:42.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	3	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France	1:56.70	Q
2	1	6	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:56.81	Q
3	1	5	Mewen Tomac	France	1:57.51	Q
4	3	4	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:57.81	Q
5	2	2	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:58.15	Q
6	2	3	Antoine Herlem	France	1:58.22
7	1	2	João Costa	Portugal	1:58.68	Q
8	2	4	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:58.88
9	3	7	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:58.99	Q
10	1	7	David Gerchik	Israel	1:59.13	Q
11	3	2	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:59.18	Q
12	2	5	Nicolás García	Spain	1:59.46	Q
13	1	3	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:59.62	Q
14	3	1	Primož Šenica Pavletič	Slovenia	1:59.76	Q
15	1	4	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:59.89	Q
16	3	5	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	2:00.29	Q
17	3	6	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	2:00.86	Q
18	2	6	Francisco Santos	Portugal	2:00.88	Q
19	1	8	Diego Mira	Spain	2:01.06
20	2	7	Kaloyan Levterov	Bulgaria	2:01.16
21	3	8	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:01.55
22	2	8	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:01.99
23	1	1	Erikas Grigaitis	Lithuania	2:02.06
24	2	0	Jonathon Marshall	Great Britain	2:02.78
25	3	0	Inbar Danziger	Israel	2:03.48
26	2	1	Émilien Mattenet	France	2:03.52
27	3	9	Zhulian Lavdaniti	Albania	2:08.30
28	1	0	Adam Maraana	Israel	2:08.88
29	1	9	Kevin Shkurti	Albania	2:24.87
	6	0	Michał Chmielewski	Poland	Disqualified

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 12 August at 18:49.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	1	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:56.22	Q, NR
2	2	4	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France	1:56.39	Q
3	1	5	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:57.07	Q
4	2	2	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:57.62	Q
5	2	3	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.68	q
6	1	4	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:57.83	q
7	2	7	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:58.20	q
8	2	5	Mewen Tomac	France	1:58.24	q
9	2	6	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:58.66
10	1	2	Nicolás García	Spain	1:58.68
11	1	3	João Costa	Portugal	1:58.96
12	1	7	Primož Šenica Pavletič	Slovenia	1:59.66
13	2	1	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:59.69
14	1	6	David Gerchik	Israel	2:00.26
15	2	8	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	2:00.29
16	1	8	Francisco Santos	Portugal	2:00.73

Final

The final was held on 13 August at 18:10.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France	1:55.62	NR
	7	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:56.03
	3	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:56.15
4	4	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:56.45
5	1	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:57.30
6	6	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:57.43
7	8	Mewen Tomac	France	1:57.71
8	2	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.84